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Chaucer's Visions of Manhood / by H. Crocker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crocker, Holly A. (Holly Adryan), 1971-
- Series:
- The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval.
- Sex.
- Classical literature.
- Literature, Ancient.
- Medieval Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Classical and Antique Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Medieval Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Classical and Antique Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Chaucer's Visions of Manhood; 1 Seeing Gender's Aspects: Vision, Agency, and Masculinity in the Tale of Melibee; 2 Portrait of a Father as a Bad Man: Visible Pressure in the Physician's Tale; 3 "My first matere I wil yow telle": Visual Impact in the Book of the Duchess; 4 Which Wife? What Man? Gender Invisibility between Chaucer's Wife and Shipman; 5 Miscellaneous Chaucer: Proverbial Masculinity in Harley 7333; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611362713
- 9781281362711
- 1281362719
- 9780230604926
- 0230604927
- OCLC:
- 314793965
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